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The topic of "free will" is basically how we chose. After pursuing this forever here is a brief summary of hundreds articles, studies and a cogillion hours of thought.Science has strongly suggested…Continue

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"Personally, I don't believe in free will. Causality is absolute. Many people have a hard time thinking about their mind as being a part of the universe/system. They see it as if the mind is outside, looking in. But IMO there is no…"

"I believe you pretty much have captured the essence of fear. My concern is still terrorism. If al-Qaida had been able to sabotage 3-4 more airplanes after 9-11 -- as in stinger missiles -- the country would have shut down -- according to some?…"

The topic of "free will" is basically how we chose. After pursuing this forever here is a brief summary of hundreds articles, studies and a cogillion hours of thought.Science has strongly suggested that every organism goes through an implicit "decision?" process whenever a non automated/habitual circumstance is stimulated.That is the Organism conjures up the most likely options to the stimulus, apparently predicts which will bring the greatest reward and selects that one. After that behavior…See More

"Not bad Chris. I'm a bit of a more basic thinker than you. To me we are only free to the extent we are aware. As for the matter of free will vs determinism -- what is important is not if there is "free will" or not but that we believe…"

"When I was about 10 years old the Methodist ministers sermon was "why does god allow the horrible events that happen?" His answer was, "because if god disallowed the evil that man does -- it would be at the cost of mans free…"

"Everyone I know -- knows my beliefs. If holding hands is part of their saying grace tradition I do that and even say "thank you" as everyone else says "amen." I went to a funeral for my father-in-law some years ago and…"

"Hi Chris,
He was an engineer really and worked on the Mars and Moon rovers. He was not really great at math but better than I and he was real creative. You're right about including all systemitized deified systems. His advice came…"

"How does that old saying go (in short) -- change what you you can and forget the rest? There is much Psychological research strongly suggesting the value of this.
"When people use the self-regulatory strategy of mental contrasting…"

"My father, a rocket scientist, said that" every fact has a probability". Assigning probabilities to ongoing beliefs has helped me immensely to keep my "reality" in context. Evolution has about a 1 in 10,000 chance of not being…"

"It was a long process for me until I reached the 99% level. Coming from a family of rocket scientists, including a "burn in hell" Jehovas witness, a devout Mormon and the rest some degree of Christian I was surrounded with much cognitive…"